Tropical storms, which cross the Texas coastline with a frequency of 0.67 storms per year, play a major role in nearshore sedimentation on the south Texas coast. Greatest geological effects of these storms are produced by wind-driven waves and by storm surges.

Forty-three species belonging to 28 genera, 12 species of brachipods belonging to 8 genera, and 1 species of gastropods are described from the Morgan Creek, Point Peak, and San Saba Members of the Wilberns Formation in the Llano Uplift. Systematic descriptions include 1 new trilobite genus, 6 other new trilobite species, 1 new brachipod genus, 2 new brachiopod species, and one new brachiopod subspecies.

Studies of physiographic relations and of fossil molluscan faunas made in the Pecos River valley region (Val Verde County to the Texas�New Mexico border) reveal extensive, well-pedimented surfaces southwest of the river extending from the Davis Mountains to near the present channel.